Yoakum County, Texas

• White (non-Hispanic) 2,348 31.0%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,966 65.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 11 0.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 71 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 175 2.3%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%

• Under 18 2,482 32.8%
• 18–24 744 9.8%
• 25–44 1,514 20.0%
• 45–64 1,860 24.6%
• 65 and over 971 12.8%

Median household income

$75,871

90% interval $69,004–$82,738

−$3,852 vs TX · 60th of 254

Below poverty line

12.6%

90% interval 9.6%–15.6%

−0.8 pp vs TX · 180th of 254

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

−0.21 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.5B

0.09% of state

Avg. annual pay

$80,731

Establishments

270

• Natural resources & mining 965 30.2%
• Education & health services 726 22.7%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 509 15.9%
• Public administration 169 5.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 164 5.1%
• Financial activities 99 3.1%
• Other services 83 2.6%
• Professional & business services 61 1.9%

The sectors listed cover 86.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

66.8%

+4.2 pp vs TX · 201st of 254

Median gross rent

$973

−$430 vs TX · 117th of 254

Owner-occupied

1,744

Renter-occupied

868

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 69% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $133,358/yr) pays 7.0× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $19,149/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 12 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 2,039 85.2%
• Democratic 342 14.3%
• Other / third-party 12 0.5%

• Spanish 3,407 50.1%
• German or other West Germanic 228 3.4%

Households

2,612

Family households

2,066

79.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

924

44.7% of families

Single-mother families

207

10.0% of families

Veterans

74

1.5% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 3,237 42.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 2,589 33.6%
• Mainline Protestant 766 10.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 301 3.9%
• Black Protestant 40 0.5%

Health insured

77.5%

±7.5 pp

Uninsured

22.5%

±7.5 pp

30th of 254

With a disability

13.6%

±3.8 pp

187th of 254

Bachelor's or higher

20.1%

±5.9 pp

−13.7 pp vs TX · 135th of 254

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

22.8%

90% interval 20.8%–24.8% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

121st District Court

Judges

1 (Total District Court judges with venue over this county; vintage 2026 txcourts.gov directory + Tex. Gov't Code § 24. Texas's court structure is unusual: each urban county has dozens of numbered District Courts (Harris ~60, Dallas ~45, Travis ~25, Bexar ~25, Tarrant ~20) with trial assignments random across the full bench. Rural counties typically have 1-2 District Court judges sitting on a multi-county district. County Court at Law judges (limited jurisdiction) and Constitutional County Court judges (presided over by the elected County Judge) are separately allocated and not counted here. TX has ~474 District Court judges statewide.)

Court seats

Brownfield, Plains

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

98.25 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4